mammoth
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From obsolete Russian мамант (modern мамонт), probably from Old Vogul *mēmoŋt ‘earth-horn’ (compare Mansi mā ‘earth’, ou̯tə ‘horn’).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmæməθ/
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia mammoth (plural mammoths)
- A large, hairy, extinct elephant-like mammal of the taxonomic genus Mammuthus.
- (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
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elephant-like mammal
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[edit] Adjective
mammoth (comparative more mammoth, superlative most mammoth)
- Very large.
- 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),
- “Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”
- 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),
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very large
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